I. Cycas.] 1. CYCADACEJE. 



II. Sides of leaflets rcvolute. Blade of carpophylls deeply softly 



pectinate nearly to midilb ....... 4. revciula. 



Only 1 and 3 are wild in our area. | 



1. C. circinalis, L. Var. orixensis. Oruguna, Or. 

 Trunks mostly 6-15 ft. high. Leaves 5-9 ft. long, petiole 1 -5-2 ft. 



long, laterally spinous to near the base, leaflets 8-12" by about -25- 

 •5" at the widest part, subfalcate, acuminate, margins flat. Male 

 cones about 7" (where seen bj' me, but unripe ; they are said to attain 

 18"), scales 1-3-1 -5" to base of the upcurved tip, which is densely 

 tomentose and armed with a sharp 1-3-fid upcurved spine up to -7" 

 long, lower part of scale beneath densely covered with, pollen-sacs. 

 Female cone (young) about 6" diam. globose with over 50 carpophylls 

 (usually said to be only 6-12 in circinalis), about 6-10" long including 

 the stalk, brown-tomentose ; blade 1-5-2 -2" lanceolate long-acu- 

 minate, margin subulate pectinate, with teeth -2- -4" long spinose 

 tipped, subulate spine or acumen -7-1" long. Ovules 3-5, in recesses 

 below the blade, mostly alternate. Seeds ovoid, pale reddish-yellow, 

 1" long. 



Wild in the hill forests of the Mais of Pari, especially on the tops of ridges with 

 heavy rainfall ! extending to Angul, in open forest, where it is less common ! Fl. 

 July-Aug. Some old carpophylls with the fruits fallen were found by me in April ; 

 these were no larger than those recorded above. 



The spinous character of the antheriferous scales is nowhere mentioned as far 

 as I can ascertain. The lower ones are simply spinous-tipped, the median also 

 spinose-serrate below the often 2-spinose tip. The carpophylls also are not spinous- 

 toothed in the Kew Herbariiun, the teeth are lanceolate '2" or less. 



The stalk or basal portion is obcuneate and the anthers are confined to this 

 portion, wliich is ••4-"6" wide at the top, flattened with a median ridge on upper 

 side; from the widest portion the scale is thickened and ciu:ved upwards and 

 crenate or spinous as described above. 



2. C. Rumphii, 3Iiq. 

 Usually about 4-15 ft. in gardens, often branched. L, 3-6 ft., 



Iflts. 9-15" by -5- -7". Carpophylls with ovate to ovate-lanceolate 

 blade, densely villous, teeth small. Seeds 2-3" long. 



Sometimes cidtivated in gardens. Xative of Tenasserim, Malacca, etc. 



The carpophylls are described in F.B.I, as with an ovate-rhomboid blade spinous- 

 toothed above'entire below ; where I have seen them the blade is a long simple 

 acumen above the linear-oblong fertile portion. Male sporophylls thickened and 

 obliquely truncate at the apex with a short upcurved not spinescent acumen. 



3. C. pectinata, Griff. Kunth, Th. 

 A small tree 4-10 ft. high with a crown of somewhat recurved 



leaves 4-5 ft. long. Leaflets narrow-linear 6-10" by -25- -3" wide, 

 subfalcate, tapering into a minute spine, margin slightly reflexed (in 

 my specimens), rhachis and leaflets beneath more or less brown- 

 pilose with deciduous hairs, especially on midrib. Male cone 18" 

 long and 6" diam., somewhat ovoid cylindric, antheriferous scales 

 1 -5" long, 1" broad, deltoid-clavate with much thickened apex and an 

 abrupt ascending subulate acumen 1-5" long. Carpophylls 6", 

 densely tawny-villous all over, stalk about equal in length to the 

 broadly orbicular, long-acuminate blade which is about 3" diam., 

 deeply cut into strong subulate spinous teeth -75" long, and with 1-2 



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